‘Jersey Shore’ goes to Italy: Season four starts tonight

By Cara Kelly

GALLERY: Click the image above to view images from season four of "Jersey Shore."

The premiere of the fourth season of MTV’s quasi-reality series, “Jersey Shore,” has finally arrived. Tonight beginning at 10 EST, we can finally start to see what happens when The Situation brings the GTL mind-set to Florence, and Snooki (apparently) demonstrates her inability to drive.

As previously noted, the boisterous crew’s arrival in Italy wasn’t all parades and heartfelt welcomes. Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi allegedly set some guidelines for the boisterous, spraytanned stars, including bans on filming in bars that serve alcohol and drinking in public. Based on the trailer for the new season, however, that did little to damp the inevitable debauchery that the show thrives on. It seems there will still be plenty of drunken brawls, grenades and rumors of inter-house smushing to look forward to.

Check out that trailer below, then check in tomorrow morning with the TV Column for a Snooki-nalysis of tonight’s episode.

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